Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D.

  • Matthew Maty
Date:
1755
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taking notice of the third, which relates to the effects ot the bite of a mad dog. In the hiftory of this ter¬ rible diforder, no author, not even Boerhaave himfelf, hath fo accu¬ rately defcribed the univerfal tendon and fenfibility of the membranes* the aim oft general perceptibility of pain, the uncommon ftrength of the mufeles, &c. Whether our Au¬ thor was as happy in curing as in defending this difeafe, which hath been long given up by the reft of the Faculty, as beyond the reach of their art, may be queftioned : yet certainly his deft re to difeover a Specific for it, and his generality in communicating freely to the public the refult of a long experience of its effects, deferve the higheft com¬ mendations. Neither ought we to
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